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Classification of the Sci.
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group of sciences, since it will be founded on the motive causes of those sciences; and thus we shall have made a vigorous commencement of the classification of all the sciences, and we may hope that in going so far we shall discover indications of a path which may be followed out beyond that first group of sciences.

That will be an intelligible thing to do and surely nothing can be easier. That is to say, no other way of breaking ground in discovering the natural classification of the practical sciences can be easier. Not that there will be no difficulties, at all. On the contrary, the difficulties will soon be found to be such that a rude approximation to the natural classification of the practical sciences is all that we can hope, at present, to attain. To begin with, let us try to get some answer not entirely unsatisfactory

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